From 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. A day of discussions on sheep farming in mountain areas, led by researchers from the CNRS and the Écrins National Park. Meet on site, then take a guided tour of the garden on the theme of plant adaptations to grazing, followed by a conference-debate in the conference room and a cocktail reception to end the day. Registration required.
Schedule for the day:
11:30 a.m.: Let's meet up at the parking lot at the start of the crevasse trail (Coordinates 45.033328, 6.403203) and follow Philippe Choler, research director at the CNRS, Rémy Perron, one of his doctoral students, and Muriel Della-Vedova, agriculture project manager at the Écrins National Park, to discover the mountain pastures of the Col du Lautaret and discuss sheep farming in the Southern Alps. Don't forget to bring a water bottle and a picnic.
3:00 p.m.: Complimentary coffee/tea in the Lautaret garden
3:30 p.m.: Guided tour by Philippe Choler in The jardin du Lautaret the theme of plant adaptations to grazing. Philippe Choler was scientific director of the Lautaret Garden from 2005 to 2015, then deputy director from 2015 to 2020. He is now a member of the scientific council and an avid user (and advocate) of our research support unit.
6:00 p.m.: Closing cocktail party on the terrace of the Lautaret garden reception area, in the sunshine facing the Meije (We've reserved the sunshine, we're just waiting for confirmation!)
Philippe Choler, CNRS research director at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory (UGA/USMB/CNRS), has been working for over 30 years on the functioning and dynamics of alpine pastures, combining different approaches (biodiversity, climatology, socio-ecology, environmental history). Watch his video on the greening of Alpine peaks produced by the Grenoble Observatory of Universe Sciences, a federation to which The jardin du Lautaret the Alpine Ecology Laboratory belong.
Rémy Perron is a doctoral student at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory and AgroParisTech, researching the links between pastoral practices and alpine vegetation. His work focuses in particular on recent developments in sheep pastoralism in the Southern Alps.
Muriel Della-Vedova is the agriculture and pastoralism project manager at Écrins National Park. She mainly works on projects at the intersection of agriculture/pastoralism and biodiversity/climate change (agri-environmental and climate measures, pastoral diagnostics, grasslands, the Alpages Sentinelles program, etc.). Listen to one of her interviews on monitoring mountain pastures in the context of climate change: Le mag', Radio Ram05
Published on March 19, 2024
Updated on March 12, 2026
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